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amirijaz's avatar
amirijaz
Freshman
8 years ago

Gen5: adding access points

Gen5 being installed tomorrow at our church.  Business account.  We will need to add 3 access points to cover the church properly.  Our plan is to add Unifi access points (from Ubiquiti).  This requi...
  • C0RR0SIVE's avatar
    C0RR0SIVE
    8 years ago

    Remote features wont be possible unless accessed via IPv6...  As you said, these HT2000w units can't be put into a bridged mode, so chances are the UniFi Cloud Key will be useless for remote administration after you add on the fact you are behind CGN...

    I have yet to run into a scenario where Ubiquiti AP's require a Unifi Gateway or Edge Router unless you are attempting to make remote management of the equipment and network easier, which again, is useless thanks to CGN, unless you can figure out something with IPv6...

    pswired and tracerrx have been working together on their IPv6 conundrum together, the thread they are discussing remote IPv6 address in could provide some good insight in that area... https://community.hughesnet.com/t5/Tech-Support/HT2000W-IPv6-inbound-services/m-p/83342#M58814

     

    To be fairly honest, I would just go HT2000w > Switch > AP's, disable the HT2000w wifi, and create my own wifi network.  Never really touched their switches or anything else as the features are mostly useless IMO.

amirijaz's avatar
amirijaz
Freshman

No problem.  What is the PFSense Firewall you have in your config?  Is this a piece of hardware or software running a PC?

C0RR0SIVE's avatar
C0RR0SIVE
Associate Professor
8 years ago

It's FreeBSD running some software on another PC to act as a network firewall and router...
https://www.pfsense.org/

  • C0RR0SIVE's avatar
    C0RR0SIVE
    Associate Professor
    8 years ago

    You can rely on just the HT2000w if you wanted to, it does have a firewall built in.

    I am using PFSense mostly for DNSBL, and Content Filtering on my network.

  • amirijaz's avatar
    amirijaz
    Freshman
    8 years ago
  • amirijaz's avatar
    amirijaz
    Freshman
    8 years ago

    I'm starting to understand this.  Can you provide a bit more info on your FreeBSD settings with HW2000?  

  • C0RR0SIVE's avatar
    C0RR0SIVE
    Associate Professor
    8 years ago

    ...there are WAY too many settings to make it feasible to go over, a lot are tailored to my exact network setup as well.

  • amirijaz's avatar
    amirijaz
    Freshman
    8 years ago

    No problem, I'll figure it out.  Curious though, doesn't the HT2000 have a firewall built into it?   Are you using FreeBSD because it offers more flexibilty and customization.....or is there something else I'm missing?  Basically what I'm asking is in the set-up I described above with 3 access points, is it advisable to install a seperate firewall/router after the HT2000 or can one typically rely on the HT2000 to do this?